The Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series Fall 2009
School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The colloquia meet 2-3:30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Freedom Forum Conference Center (3rd floor) in Carroll Hall.
Date	Speaker	Title	Abstract
Sept. 10	Prof. Anne Klinefelter Associate Professor School of Law UNC-Chapel Hill	Sex, Libraries, and Videotapes--How Judicial Review Affects Libraries' Practices and the First Amendment.	Courts have been inconsistent in applying the First Amendment to public libraries. Libraries make decisions about books to add and to remove from collections, about providing full or filtered access… Click here for complete abstract.
Sept. 17	Dr. Marci Campbell Professor School of Public Health UNC-Chapel Hill	Tailoring Health Messages - 20 Years of Lessons, Mistakes, and a Few Insights.	Growing evidence indicates efficacy and potential for computer-tailored interventions to acheive at least modest improvements in health promoting behaviors such as diet and physical activity. Computer-tailored... Click here for complete abstract.
Sept. 24	Dr. Craig Carroll Assistant Professor School of Journalism and Mass Communication UNC-Chapel Hill	What a Public Relations Orientation Offers Media Research: The Introduction of Core and Peripheral Attributes to Agenda-Setting Theory.	This presentation introduces the concepts of focal and peripheral media attributes to the domain of attribute agenda-setting theory. Focal attributes constitute the traditional focus of cognitive... Click here for complete abstract.
Oct. 1	Dr. Erik Bucy Associate Professor Department of Telecommunications Indiana University - Bloomington	Image Bite Politics: Network News and the Visual Framing of Elections.	Despite the rise of the Internet, television remains the dominant news medium, owing to its visual nature and nearly universal accessibility.  Given the documented centrality of visual images in shaping public opinion, one might expect... Click here for complete abstract.
Oct. 8	Dr. Noshir Contractor Professor McCormick School of Engineering School of Communication Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University	From Disasters to WoW: Enabling Knowledge Networks in the 21st Century.	Recent advances in digital technologies invite consideration of organizing as a process that is accomplished by global, flexible, adaptive, and ad hoc networks that can be created, maintained, dissolved, and reconstituted with remarkable... Click here for complete abstract.
Oct. 15	Dr. Diego Garcia Assistant Professor Kenan-Flagler Business School UNC-Chapel Hill	Sentiment During Recessions.	This presentation examines the effect of sentiment on asset prices during the first half of the 20th century (1905-1958). As a proxy for sentiment, we use the fraction of positive and negative words in two columns of financial news from the New York Times. The main finding... Click here for complete abstract.
Oct. 29	Dr. Jeffrey Hancock Associate Professor Department of Communication Cornell University	The Shape of Deception in the Digital Age.	Deception is a significant and pervasive social phenomena. At the same time, technologies have suffused almost all aspects of human communication. The intersection between deception and information technology gives rise... Click here for complete abstract.
Nov. 12	Dr. Rajiv Rimal Associate Professor School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University	Health Communication Theory at Work: HIV Prevention and Stigma Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa.	For the last 7 years, Dr. Rimal has been part of a number of teams running interventions to reduce HIV infection in three sub-Saharan countries -- Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda... Click here for complete abstract.
Nov. 19	Dr. Francesca Gino Assistant Professor Kenan-Flagler Business School UNC-Chapel Hill	How Bad Apples Can Motivate Ethical or Unethical Behavior.	Previous research has shown that group members’ unethical conduct can be contagious (Gino, Ayal, & Ariely, 2009) yet others have found that people experience guilt… Click here for complete abstract.
To see videos of previous colloquium presentations, load iTunes on your computer. Within the iTunes Store, click on "iTunes U." Under "Find Education Providers," click on "Universities and Colleges." Click on "UNC-Chapel Hill," and then click on "School of Journalism and Mass Communication." You will see a logo for the Mary Junck Colloquium Series, and clicking on that will lead to a list of available presentations. For a more direct route to the videos, search for "Mary Junck" from the iTunes store home page. If you would like additional details/information about the colloquium series, or have any suggestions, please contact Sriram "Sri" Kalyanaraman E-mail: sri@unc.edu Phone: 919-843-5858